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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews WOR weeknight host Jimmy Failla.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy shares a story about how Mark’s promotion of his show may have helped bring together a couple in his audience at one of his tapings. They also discuss Stephen Colbert leaving his late-night show in two weeks and talk about how the program’s new format will lean more heavily into comedy and how it could change the feel of the show’s audience.

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0:00.0

It's the Marks Among show on 710 WOR.

0:04.7

Well, the great Jimmy Fela, the great talk show host, comedian.

0:07.9

You can hear him every night at 9 o'clock, 9 to midnight, every night here on 710WR.

0:13.5

And watch him Saturday nights, best late night show on TV.

0:16.8

Saturday nights at 10, Fox News Channel.

0:19.0

Jimmy Fela, how you doing?

0:40.0

I'm doing great. I did not know until a week ago that in addition to being Mr. New York, you're also Mr. Matchmaker. So can I just tell a two-second story, Mark Simone? Okay. Last week, we're taping Fox News Saturday night. I have the Rizza there from the Wu-Tang Clan, which you don't get a lot of Wu-Tang Klan on Fox News.

0:41.0

I don't know if you know that.

0:42.3

That's kind of the beauty of my show.

0:44.8

But anyway, there is a couple in the back of my show that has been listening to me on your show

0:50.7

that came to my show, and they had just gotten engaged and this was their first uh

0:56.4

this was their first uh out night out getting engaged so i said it doesn't sound like you're having

1:02.6

a really nice wedding if he's taking you to cheap dates like this but the point is uh this all happened

1:08.0

because of mark simone so i don't know i don't know i don't know if you're going to be in the wedding valves. I don't know how this works. I had to share that with you. We go. Jimmy Phala, it's the best late night show until he tapes it Friday evening. So if you want to come, the tickets are free. You can invite somebody. This is a perfect date. You don't have to tell him it was free. you know, just know just bring them yeah i hope i didn't get that guy in trouble now that now that you think about it because i go oh wow so he's taking you to free shows he's already given up you're not even married yet that's a good point i might have just i might have just ruined the marriage you got him together i broke him off look at that so bring your date to see jimmy fail they tape in

1:44.2

the middle of manhattan here and uh don't say it's free just say hey arrange for us to go see

1:48.9

jimmy failure it's a great night where do you go to get the tickets uh fox across america dot com

1:56.7

free seats come hang out see the fox people people. Yeah. All the fun stuff.

2:04.4

It is. Hey, do you know Stephen Colbert goes off the year in two weeks?

2:06.5

Will you miss him? I won't miss him.

2:14.6

Talk about addition by subtraction. You know? Now, we've talked about this.

2:21.3

They need to replace him. They're putting Byron Allen in there with a show called Comics Unleashed, which is really going to throw their viewers for a curve because there'll be comedy there.

2:25.4

And they, you know, they haven't aired a comedy show in that time slot, and I guess about

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